So many of Kemi Badenoch’s statements make you wonder if she’s given the issue at hand even 3 minutes of thought. “deepfake CSAM on demand is fine as long as kids can’t see it” is pretty wild though even by her standards.

The creation of CSAM on X is unrelated to whether children use the site or not. So what Badenoch appears to be arguing is that only adults should be allowed to look at CSAM. She’s also implying that that it’s rather judgy and illiberal of the govt to “not like” a CSAM generator

Something wonderfully ironic about this announcement coming from the most terminally online person in Westminster.

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

More of this kind of questioning needed!

It's completely unacceptable in every sense, except the very literal one, in which we are going to accept it.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

A round up of the year from my mobile banking app?? In this economy???

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

this is cowardly and also pointless: Labour will never win over the British voters who hate Sadiq because he’s Muslim, and failing to stick up for your capital’s mayor (who is also part of your party!!!) against a foreign leader makes you look really weak

I find stuff like this so worrying. The rapidity with which people are willing to give up on basic critical thought or, you know, checking sources.

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?

thought this was an Onion headline

It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Having relied heavily on Google for my entire career, I really can’t get over this. It’s just so bad now!

this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives

I find insane that shabana mahmood is going out there and saying "white british people cannot be asked to accept too many of us outsiders, it is not in their nature, and their pushback against all of us is to be placated". What???

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

Implying that the "cause of our division" is too many care workers, as Mahmood does here, is both absurd and sinister.

Mandatory jail sentences for all asylum seekers seen smiling, laughing or dancing.

Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!

This is such a good piece, well worth your time.

The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.

"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational" 🤡🤡

These people are incompetent, scared of the tasks before them, adrift from any real values or vision, and cosseting themselves in sad fantasies of populism and authoritarian power. Even as its clear these are a wretched offer to the public and loser electoral propositions in the US.

Did anyone who voted for Labour vote for this? If it does actually end up being proposed I hope the party finds its backbone.

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

It’s profoundly worrying that so many politicians and journalists, continue to use this platform which is increasingly a space for hate speech and far right propaganda. It’s having a serious impact on the state of national discourse. Government should at the very least make X abide by the law.

This seems like a positive step, and something the U.K. should be thinking about doing too.

This is an incredibly moving story - well worth your time www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

i really believe in tackling gender inequality but few things seem quite as wrongheaded to me as the demand to transfer wealth from poorer younger generations with a far-distant retirement age, lower real wages and very little hope of property acquisition, to wealthy boomers who didn't read a letter

If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...

Excellent piece by @lewisgoodall.com on the BBC mess and how the principle of impartiality has been distorted open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Good God

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA